Elections 2010: Earlene Hooper

Hooper, who was first elected in a 1988 special election, is seeking her 11th full term. The 71-year-old former social worker and public employee union leader prides herself on being the deputy Assembly speaker, which makes her the highest-ranking female state lawmaker. She sits on the education, rules and ways & means committees.

FacebookTwitterE-mail While making a left turn onto Uniondale Avenue from Jerusalem Avenue, a busy intersection in Uniondale, John Bohannon of Wantagh saw a pedestrian talking on a cell phone. “[She was] sauntering across in front of me, oblivious to [...]

FacebookTwitterE-mail Democrats maintained their majority in the New York State Assembly but Republicans chipped away at that advantage and may have picked off at least one Democratic incumbent Assembly member on Long Island, if not two. Assemblywoman [...]

FacebookTwitterE-mail What’s at stake in next Tuesday’s election is huge for New York: a new governor, for sure, and possibly a radical shift in the balance of power in Albany. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, won’t lose his [...]